Please enjoy the sunshine for me as well! I'm part way through the Downton episode...sometimes I want to hug Mary and sometimes I just want to yell COME ON! And I'm forever grateful that you introduced me to Waterlogue...so fun!

It's sunny here and it feels SO good. We haven't had the cold the rest of the county has had. Thank you, thank you for the gorgeous yellow water color! It's brightened my day. Please take care of your shoulder. Best to your parents!

losing a tv show is strange, isn't it: "To love a TV show is to know one of two things: Either it will eventually leave you, or you will eventually leave it. There’s no middle ground for the committed. Once you’re in, you’re in, and you’re going to be in until the thing is canceled or until you lose interest because you’ve either figured out all of the show’s tricks or it’s just not the same anymore. That show you loved more than anything? It will eventually feel sort of old and pointless to you after a while, and you’ll have moved on to some new thing that feels fresher but will inevitably disappoint you somewhere down the line. And so it goes. You’ll someday remember that show you loved with such intensity—it will probably be off the air by this point—and you’ll wonder idly why they don’t make ’em like that anymore. The answer is because you’re not who you were anymore, and you can’t fall for a show like that because you’re no longer the same person." --Todd VanDerWerff